Time and Fury
Jason: sees time as an enemy fighting against him in his quest for money and power. He struggles in this battle throughout his life trying many different ways to outsmart time and overcome its unavoidable continuation. ... -Jason Compson tries to beat time and run ahead into the future, doing anything necessary to obtain the money he thinks he deserves. ... Jason voices the pressures that he feels that make him try to beat time when he says, "I never had time to be. I never had time to go to Harvard or drink myself into the ground. ... Because Jason tries to conquer the perpetual movement of time, he constantly rushes everywhere he goes. He hurries everywhere, never taking time to look around the present and see the consequences of his actions on the people around him. ... Another reason Jason tries to beat time is that the present fails him all throughout his life. ... Jason conquers the never-ending wave of time by forcing himself to live completely inside his dreams of the future. Benjy: time is unfixed and almost meaningless. ... His inability to see his sister in her ruin reinforces his immunity to time. -Benjamin, the retarded son in the Compson family, holds no concept of time. ... Because he has no perception of time, he hears the word "caddie" and automatically thinks that they are back to the time when his sister Caddy still lives with him. He cannot understand time and how it changes people and places. ... Benjys disability makes him rise above others on the wave of time. ... Quentin: While time does not affect Benjy, his brother Quentin cannot escape it. ... Because he cannot handle these things that accompany the movement of time, he retreats into the memories of his childhood where the people he loves have their innocence.